Re: [PATCH v6 06/18] virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces

From: Shuo A Liu
Date: Tue Dec 15 2020 - 05:04:03 EST


On Tue 15.Dec'20 at 11:00:57 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:52:59PM +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
On Wed 2.Dec'20 at 10:14:29 +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
> On Tue 1.Dec'20 at 11:09:47 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:38:41PM +0800, shuo.a.liu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > + vm_param->reserved0 = 0;
> > > + vm_param->reserved1 = 0;
> >
> > NO!
> >
> > This means that userspace can put whatever crud they want in those
> > fields, and you will happily zero it out. Then, when those reserved
> > fields are wanted to be used in the future, you will take those values
> > from userspace and accept them as a valid value. But, since userspace
> > was sending crud before, now you will take that crud and do something
> > with it.
> >
> > TEST IT to verify that it is zero, that way userspace gets it right the
> > first time, and you don't get it wrong later, as you can not change it
> > later.
>
> OK. Thanks for the elaboration. I will test it and return -EINVAL if
> it is not zero.
>

Hi Greg,

Would you like to review other patches in this series on this version?

Nope, it's the middle of the merge window, I can't do anything with any
new patches until after 5.11-rc1 is out. So I suggest you fix up the
current issues and send a new patch series once 5.11-rc1 is released.

Got it, thanks!